auto attribution pros/cons

[Bruce Carneal]

On Sunday, 28 June 2020 at 21:44:45 UTC, kinke wrote:
> On Sunday, 28 June 2020 at 18:39:13 UTC, Bruce Carneal wrote:
>> Other pros/cons?
>
> The main problem IMO is the API instability - an 
> innocent-looking change for a little leaf function may impact a 
> huge number of callers, which e.g. affects D symbol name 
> mangling. And a function f may become @safe when the last 
> @system callee is, which might enable unwanted bounds checks 
> for f with -release (and without additional -boundscheck=off).

You can force "hard points" in an API by using explicit 
attribution, just like today for templated functions.